The MetroCard fare card is a high-tech system that encodes a certain number of
rides on a magnetic strip on the back of a thin plastic card. MetroCards are
accepted on both buses and subways and have a lot of advantages over tokens:
They ...

Pay-Per-Ride MetroCards can be used for up to four people by swiping up to four
times (bring the whole family). You can put any amount from $4 (two rides) to $80
on your card. Every time you put $10 or $20 on your Pay-Per-Ride MetroCard, ...

NYCT began implementing the MetroCard automated fare collection system on a
limited basis in 1994, and system- wide implementation for subway and bus was
completed in 1997. MetroCard is a magnetic stripe farecard. The cards can be ...

every subway station, which accept cash, credit cards, and debit cards; from a MetroCard merchant, such as most Rite Aid drugstores; Hudson News, at Penn
Station and Grand Central Terminal; or at the MTA information desk at the Times
...

With the anniversary of Sandy looming on the horizon, Governor Andrew Cuomo has turned to the MTA for help with two commemorative projects. First up is a new tourism campaign called “Come See the Comeback” that uses a fully-wrapped Shuttle train and special edition MetroCards to promote areas that were ravaged by the storm. The […]

The "I Love New York" campaign is coming to MetroCards. The commemorative cards will hit the streets October 29. It's part of a new effort to get visitors to explore parts of New York via public transportation that were hit by Hurricane Sandy

Long adorned by bold blue letters on an orangey-yellow background, the iconic MTA MetroCard may soon play host to advertising. For prices ranging between 18¢ and 51¢ per card, the move could net the struggling MTA millions (or billions?) in revenue per year, though the consequence may very well be bland and boring corporate messages littering the floors of subway stations. Brooklyn-based creative and branding consultancy Mayday Mayday Mayday proposes a way out: make MetroCards into an urban puzzle. According to this plan, advertisers would use the back of the MetroCard to share their full message, while the front would host an extremely zoomed-in piece of a larger image (as opposed to shrinking down a poster-sized ad to fit the MetroCard...

Before I leave in the morning I usually check to make sure I have all my essentials: ID, credit card, MetroCard, etc. But today I don’t have time — my head is killing me, my mouth is dry, I feel like death- but I still have one more day until the weekend.

If you're a New Yorker and you bought a MetroCard sometime in the last week or so at a "high-traffic" station (Herald Square, Penn Station, Coney Island, Times Square, etc.), you may have noticed something was very different.